There is a question in the FAQ that addresses mounting an NTFS drive to copy files from but unfortunately the answer isn't particularly relevant to the question.
How do I mount my internal/external NTFS disk so I can copy my files to FreeNAS?
NTFS in FreeNAS™ is only intended to be used to copy files to your NAS, not for exporting/sharing files. NTFS support in FreeBSD is not very reliable.
I'm still not sure of the best way to do this, but in the end I figured out the drive name that I wanted to copy my files from (looked at 'View Disks' in the GUI before/after adding the drive) and then did:
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
ntfs-3g /dev/ada1s1 /mnt/ntfs
mkdir /mnt/volume/ntfs
cp -r -v /mnt/ntfs /mnt/volume/ntfs
umount /mnt/ntfs
rmdir /mnt/ntfs
Perhaps this question in the FAQ could be updated to help n00bs like me in the future.
Just a suggestion.
Thanks,
Mitch
How do I mount my internal/external NTFS disk so I can copy my files to FreeNAS?
NTFS in FreeNAS™ is only intended to be used to copy files to your NAS, not for exporting/sharing files. NTFS support in FreeBSD is not very reliable.
I'm still not sure of the best way to do this, but in the end I figured out the drive name that I wanted to copy my files from (looked at 'View Disks' in the GUI before/after adding the drive) and then did:
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
ntfs-3g /dev/ada1s1 /mnt/ntfs
mkdir /mnt/volume/ntfs
cp -r -v /mnt/ntfs /mnt/volume/ntfs
umount /mnt/ntfs
rmdir /mnt/ntfs
Perhaps this question in the FAQ could be updated to help n00bs like me in the future.
Just a suggestion.
Thanks,
Mitch